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Episode summary:As the hunt for Tony Tucci continues,posed body parts start surfacing. Is there a new killer in town or, are these the calling cards of an irritated Ice Truck Killer? The mysterious Ice Truck Killer escalates his killing spree by leaving body parts of his latest victim at sites that relate to memories from Dexter's childhood which leads him to confront his dark personal history. As Halloween approaches, Rita takes drastic steps to quiet a barking dog from it's cynical owner who keeps her children up at night. Lt. Laguerta seeks a way to comfort the mother of the latest Ice Truck victim. Angel cannot find the right anniversary gift for his wife, who is currently separated from him. Also, the heat against Sgt. Doakes escalates when Guerrero's thugs begin tailing him.
Original air date: 10/22/2006
Written by: Drew Z. Greenberg
Directed by: Robert Lieberman
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 Criminal is cutting off body parts of a victim. Suspected that this is the continued work of the ice truck killer.
Victim(s):Tony Tucci
Assigned officer(s):Detective Batista
Crime scene:The Beach (Rand Beach renamed Petrie Beach), where the first severed part is found (the hand)
Suspect(s):ice truck killer
Clue(s): a photograph of the hand displayed (the killer trying to convey something), the criminal left blood
Blood spatter evidence suggests...
Killer calling card(s): posing the body part
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 Description of crime:Same criminal is surgically cutting off Tony Tucci's body parts
Victim(s):Tony Tucci
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Crime scene:Office Park (Downtown) Miami
Suspect(s):Ice Truck Killer
Clue(s):photograph of the foot displayed, killer choosing locations that had names changed, the killer left blood
Blood spatter evidence suggests...blood flow suggests that victim's heart was still pumping when foot was severed. Both hand from previous crime scene and foot had same lividity, ashen color and decomposition suggesting the victim is still living
Killer calling card(s): posing the body part
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FLASHBACKS
- The Ice Truck Killer's first picture causes Dexter to remember a time on the beach with his family. Harry is taking a family picture but Dexter doesn't smile. His father takes him aside to explain that smiling is what normal people do when a picture is taken and that is what he should do to fit in.
- The Ice Truck Killer's second picture flashes Dexter back to playing soccer as a teenager. He and some other boys are playing keep away with another boy's shirt. Harry stops the teasing, takes Dexter aside and explains that what he was doing was bullying. And that bullying stands out, especially to cops. Harry says that cops see bullying as a felony waiting to happen.
- The location of the third piece of Tony flashed Dexter to a pumpkin patch hayride with Harry and his sister. Harry notices that Dexter is having a good time. Dexter snaps out of his "fun" act and explains to Harry that the hay is giving him an allergy attack and he doesn't understand the point of riding around in circles. He snaps back into "fun" mode just in time to smile for a picture to be taken, showing he had learned from the lesson on the beach.
- In the final flashback, a late teen Dexter is with Harry at the entrance to Angel of Mercy Hospital. Harry explains that his father, Dexter's "grandfather', worked at this hospital for 30 years and that in 2 weeks it would be shut down. He calls to a stranger to take a picture. Dexter objects. Just before the stranger reaches them, Harry doubles over in pain, foreshadowing his eventual medical problems. Harry says he doesn't want to take the picture. Dexter reminds Harry of his earlier lesson that "smiling for pictures is what families do."
| CLUES TO DEXTER'S PAST
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DEXTER'S RELATIONSHIPS
Developments with Rita:
- This is the first episode where Rita gets more "intimate" with Dexter. Rita's act leads Dexter to think about the future of his relationship with Rita.
- It's interesting that Rita, who knows so little about Dexter's past & childhood, is the one to help Dexter make the connection that Harry is the common denominator in the Tucci crime scenes.
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| SIGNIFICANCE OF EPISODE TITLE |
| A play on words, as a reference to both a request for applause, and the discovery of the severed hand at the beach in the beginning of the episode, which starts Dexter down the path of clues the Ice Truck Killer leaves for Dexter. |
EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS
Best Moments:
- Dexter: You could take him inside!
Rita's Neighbor: Walter is an outside dog.
Dexter: You take Walter inside, Walter is an inside dog.
Rita's Neighbor:: He doesn't like being inside.
Dexter: He tell you that?
- Scene opens with a close up of a hand, holding a knife and stabbing...a pumpkin. Camera pulls back and we see it's Dexter and he says: "I do love Halloween".
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- "Check out what else he left behind. A postcard to remember him by."
- "What happened to Snow White?" "I'm sick of her."
- "I'm not the monster he wants me to be. So I'm neither man nor beast. I'm something new entirely. With my own set of rules. I'm Dexter". - Dexter's inner monologue
- I love Halloween. The one time of year when everyone wears a mask... not just me. People think it's fun to pretend you're a monster. Me, I spend my life pretending I'm not. Brother, friend, boyfriend - All part of my costume collection. Some people might call me a fraud. I prefer to think of myself as a master of disguise. - Dexter
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EPISODE TRIVIA - Factual errors: In describing the anatomical location of the cut which severed Tony Tucci's foot, Dexter says it was "severed between the tarsus and the metatarsus" when it was clearly through the distal end of tibia and fibula.
- Factual errors: When Dexter discovers the smiley face on the reverse of the photo of himself and Harry outside the Angel of Mercy Hospital, many Hewlett Packard (HP) logos are visible suggesting the photo was printed on a Digital Photo Printer. The flashback which preceded this clearly shows that the camera, which was used to take the photo, was a standard film camera and not a digital one with printing capabilities.
- At the beginning of the episode as Dexter does a voiceover about the Halloween tradition of people wearing masks of monsters, Cody appears wearing a mask of U.S. President George W. Bush
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ORIGINAL VERSUS NETWORK BROADCAST
This one is for the superfans, tell the newbie fans what they're missin' out on!
 IN THE SHOWTIME SERIES | |  IN THE CBS BROADCAST | | | | |
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